The most-subscribed-to YouTube channels

The most-subscribed-to YouTube channels
By Luke Larsen

PewDiePie, Dude Perfect, Smosh, Ninja,…If you’re not big on watching YouTube, you might not be familiar with these names. YouTube has become a platform where content creators can get millions of fans by sharing original videos that showcase popular video games or by sharing their lives through Vlogs. These creators are extremely influential and can earn millions in ad revenues.

Our list of the most-subscribed-to YouTube channels will bring you up to speed if you’re not familiar with these popular content creators!

YouTube channel	Number of subscribers
Dude Perfect	49.5 million
Zee Music Company	50.9 million
Justin Bieber	51.9 million
WWE	55.1 million
Canal KondZilla	55.9 million
5-Minute Crafts	64.7 million
SET India	66.1 million
Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes	74.2 million
PewDiePie	103 million
T-Series	130 million

10. Dude Perfect (49.5 million subscribers)

Dude Perfect is a comedy sports group consisting of “5 Best Friends and a Panda.” Twins Coby and Cory Cotton, Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones, and Tyler Toney — all former roommates and high school basketball players — started the channel in 2009.

Since then, the group has uploaded more than 200 videos. Its members also hold several Guinness World Records, including several for basketball, as well as records for the most T-shirts hung on a washing line using pegs in 1 minute and the most pencils snapped in 1 minute.

9. Zee Music Company (50.9 million subscribers)

Zee Music Company is an Indian music label launched in 2014. Based out of New Delhi, it’s a subsidiary of India’s Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) that produces more than 222,000 hours of Hindi programming.

The company claims it has the rights to more than 3,818 movie titles from “premier studios.” All videos listed on the channel consist of songs taken from ZEEL’s movie library, along with official music videos from the likes of Aakhri Baar, Zurana, Nain Shikari, and more.

Zee’s YouTube numbers show steady growth in new viewers. In May 2019 alone, the channel gained just over 2 million subscribers, resulting in 894 million video views. The channel fell back to the No. 9 slot in February due to a surge in Justin Bieber subscribers, though it has gained 1.4 million subscribers since January.

8. Justin Bieber (51.9 million subscribers)

Justin Bieber now has the eighth-most-subscribed-to channel on YouTube, up from the ninth slot in January. The channel had the third-highest subscriber gains in February with 2.6 million new viewers.

Bieber’s channel compiles official music videos, live performances, and interviews for his 51.9 million subscribers to enjoy. Bieber, who began singing in 2007 at the age of 12, has several videos that have surpassed a billion views each.

Although never posted on his official YouTube channel, Bieber also contributed to a remixed version of the hit 2017 song Despacito that has garnered more than 640 million views since its release in 2017, making Bieber one of the most-watched artists on the video-sharing site. The original track is the most-watched video in the history of YouTube, receiving more than 6 billion views.

7. WWE (55.1 million subscribers)

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is the seventh-most-subscribed YouTube channel, with 55.1 million subscribers. The company began as the World Wrestling Federation in 1979 and switched to the current name in 2005. It simplified its name to WWE in 2011.

WWE offers more than 1,500 videos including all episodes from Monday Night Raw, TV’s longest-running weekly episodic program. It also features behind-the-scenes footage and SmackDown LIVE every Tuesday night.

6. Canal KondZilla (55.9 million subscribers)

Konrad Cunha Dantas, otherwise known as KondZilla, is a Brazilian music video producer, director, and writer. His YouTube channel launched in 2012 and now has 55.9 million subscribers and more than 23 billion views.

According to his YouTube channel, Dantas is the largest producer of electronic music in Brazil with more than 700 music videos in his directorial portfolio. Features artists include MC Guime, Preta Gil, Koral Conká, DJ Marlboro, and more.

He earned a nomination for Best Music Video at the 2015 Multishow Awards for his work on the music video Tombei, by Koral Conká. The video has more than 27 million views.

5. 5-Minute Crafts (64.7 million subscribers)

Launched less than three years ago, 5-Minute Crafts surpassed some of the most popular YouTube channels, like whinderssonnunes and elrubiusOMG. It now has nearly 65 million subscribers consuming a near-3,000-video library viewed more than 16 billion times.

The 5-Minute Crafts channel offers something for everyone, including “20 bathroom hacks to make life easier” and “35 unbelievable cooking hacks.” Its subscription numbers continue to grow each month, though it fell back to the No. 5 slot in February due to a surge in SET India viewers. The channel only gained 800,ooo subscribers since January.

4. SET India (66.1 million subscribers)

Moving to the No. 4 slot is Sony Entertainment Television India, a 24-hour Hindi-specific channel with 66.1 million subscribers. SET India launched as a station in 1995 and entered the YouTube space in 2005.

This channel originally played top-10 artists like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry. Now it has a library of more than 31,000 videos including comedy specials like The Kapil Sharma Show and police dramas like Crime Patrol. The channel gained 2.4 million subscribers over the last month.

3. Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes (74.2 million subscribers)

Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes is a channel focusing almost entirely on classic children’s nursery rhymes and original songs set to 3D animation. It has an average of 3 million new subscribers every month.

Originally called ABCkidTV, Cocomelon is one of the longest-running top channels on YouTube. It published its first video in September 2006, and while it experienced steady growth over the years, its popularity exploded in 2017. That’s when it began garnering more than 100,000 new subscribers a month.

Cocomelon – Nursery Rhymes is somewhat controversial, however. It has one of the 12 most disliked videos of all time: “Bath Song.” This video has more than 1.6 million dislikes alongside its 1.45 billion views.

2. PewDiePie (103 million subscribers)

After a long time on top, PewDiePie is now only the second-most-subscribed YouTube channel, with 103 million subscribers. Viewers describe his content as goofy, obnoxious, and filled with profanity. He could also be considered quite a controversial figure.

Created in 2010 by Swedish comedian Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, the PewDiePie YouTube channel is best known for its “Let’s Play” videos and blogs, as well as Kjellberg’s following.

After dropping out of college to focus on creating content, PewDiePie surpassed 1 million subscribers just two years after his channel’s creation. Kjellberg’s influence on the social network has also had a positive effect on the sales of indie video games, particularly Goat Simulator and McPixel.

He maintained a feud with the now-most-subscribed channel, T-Series, throughout much of 2018. They stole the top position from each other multiple times, but Kjellberg eventually capitulated and has now fallen far enough behind that it would take something quite special for him to retake the top spot.

That said, his subscriber numbers are still strong. They remain at a steady 103 million subscribers in February.

1. T-Series (130 million subscribers)

Finally, eclipsing the former longtime YouTube king is T-Series. It’s a popular Indian music company with 130 million subscribers and more than 3 billion monthly views, making it the most-subscribed and most-viewed YouTube channel in the world. Of all the channels on this list, it gained the most subscribers in February at 4 million.

T-Series is best known for its Bollywood music soundtracks. It’s the most subscribed Hindi-language and Indian YouTube channel. It’s also the first channel to reach 100 million subscribers.

Although the T-Series channel launched in 2006 (YouTube started in 2005), the T-Series company, which runs the channel, opened its doors in the 1980s. The company’s breakthrough came in 1990, with the film soundtrack album, “Aashiqui.” The soundtrack sold more than 20 million units in India, making it the best-selling Bollywood album of all time.

Numbers are based on Social Blade findings as of February 2020.

April 1, 2020 at 01:43AM
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